ChaICA - 7

Challenges and Innovations in Computational Astrophysics VII

An Online Meeting covering all areas of Computational Astrophysics

November 17 - November 19, 2026

Online (Zoom)

Rationale:

This is the 7th edition of the ChaICA series of meetings on computational astrophysics organised by IAU Commission B1: Computational Astrophysics. The meeting provides a forum especially for early-career researchers to present to their peers their work on computational algorithms, methods and new software projects. The talks can be a mix of both numerical methods and scientific results, but the focus of the meeting is on the computational and programming aspects. It is less formal than a scientific symposium, and so presentations on work-in-progress that does not yet have any scientific application/results are warmly welcomed.

Schedule

The 3-day hybrid workshop will have 3 sessions per day to cover the different time zones. These sessions are listed below:

Date Session Time
Nov 17th Session 1 8:00 -10:00 UTC
Nov 17th Session 2 13:00-15:00 UTC
Nov 17th Session 3 20:00-22:00 UTC
Nov 18th Session 1 8:00-10:00 UTC
Nov 18th Session 2 13:00-15:00 UTC
Nov 18th Session 3 20:00-22:00 UTC
Nov 19th Session 1 8:00-10:00 UTC
Nov 19th Session 2 13:00-15:00 UTC
Nov 19th Session 3 20:00-22:00 UTC

The detailed schedule for CHAICA-7 will be updated here.

Topics to be covered:

  1. Data Management & Mock Catalogs

  2. AI/ML Aided Simulations

  3. Astrophysical Codes in the Era of GPU

  4. Cosmological codes with Subgrid Models

  5. Multi-scale simulations

  6. Advances in Stellar Evolution codes

  7. Particle Simulations and Kinetic Plasma codes.

Invited Speakers

To be updated.

Important Dates:

August 15, 2026 : Registeration Opens

October 01, 2026 : Abstract Submission Deadline

October 17, 2026 : Selection of Abstracts and Announcement of Schedule

Registeration: NEW

The registeration can be done here

Scientific Organizing Committee

  1. Michiko Fujii ; Co-Chair

  2. Jonathan Mackey; Co-Chair

  3. Bhargav Vaidya; Co-Chair

  4. Jasjeet Singh Bagla

  5. Jungyeon Cho

  6. Pratika Dayal

  7. Catherine Lovekin

  8. Surajit Paul

  9. Steven Rieder

  10. Christian M. Boily